As the episode begins, we are introduced to Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene). Cassie is speaking with Rob in the evidence room at the police station. During their conversation, we see flashbacks of several kids riding through the streets and a young ballerina. Rob beings speaking about killers and their victims. He claims that the lucky ones are the ones who were killed. Those who were left behind were not good or lucky enough to be taken. Cassie tells him that they will not see each other again before leaving. After the intro, we jump forward four years to 2006. Cassie and Rob respond to a murder at a convenience store.

They speak with a man, Cian, who has been identified by eyewitnesses from the scene. Cian (Killian Coyle) denies being involved and explains that he was with Alannah (Ericka Roe). He says that he never goes into the shop because it is a shat hole. Moments later, the investigators speak with Alannah. They tell her that Cian has placed the blame on her. Rob makes the woman cry before Cassie arrives with tissues and a drink. Alannah confesses that Cian left the flat and that she got rid of the knife for him. After a job well done, the couple celebrates their success. The following day, Rob arrives at the station and learns that there is another murder. Cassie goes to court to testify Vincent Johnstone (Paul Roe). The officers applaud Rob.

Another officer wants to team up with Rob before Superintendent O’Kelly (Conleth Hill) enters. He gives Rob details about the next murder case he will be working on. Cassie tells the court that Johnstone should not be allowed to have contact with his children because that would put them and his wife in danger. The testimony is watched by a man on the balcony. After the testimony ends, Cassie speaks with a man in the lobby and tells him she cannot meet tonight due to a new case. She gets into the car with Rob a few moments later. Rob lets her know that they’re going to Knocknaree for the murder. Rob says that he did not know where until it was too late. The strange man from the courtroom watches their car drive away.

Cassie learns that they’re going to be trekking through the woods to get to the body. We see a flashback of the young boy and his friends going into the woods. The investigators go into the woods and speak with Phelan (Ian Kenny) about the discovery of the body. She lived up on the estate. One Phelan leaves, Rob and Cassie check the body. They believe that she was killed elsewhere and moved to the current location. It appears that the body has been posed on some sort of altar. The wooded area will be flattened for a roadway in the near future. We jump back to August 16, 1985.

Adam (Michael D’Arcy) calls for Peter and Jamie to wait for him. They run ahead of him and he cannot keep up. Soon, he finds himself all alone. He turns around and something scares him and we quickly jump back to Cassie and Rob leaving the woods. They’re confronted by the site direction, Mark Hanley, who wants to get back to work as quickly as possible. Hanley is told that nobody will be working today. They speak with the ones who found the body and one man apologizes for leaning over the body. Hanley makes a rude comment to Cassie before they leave. Back in the car, we hear a news report about Kate Devlin (Amy Macken) going missing and the 1985 disappearance of three children from the same estate.

After that, Rob and Cassie decide to speak with the family. Jessica answers the door. The investigators find out that Jonathan (Peter McDonald), Rosalind (Leah McNamara), and the rest of the family are very strange. Jessica throws up and Cassie helps clean up the mess. Rob is given the chance to look through Katy’s room. Jon explains that Katy was in bed asleep at the end of the night. The family thought she went to her dancing lessons. Before they leave, Jessica says nonchalantly that Kate is dead. They run into an older lady outside. She has flowers for the family and she tells Rob about the dance teacher Simone Cameron. The woman on the scooter says that her mother used to tell her that the other kids would never be found and that they’ve gone under the hill with the old ones.

Rob is adamant that they’ll find out who killed Katy. Cassie and Rob meet in the squad car and contemplate finding a way to get out of this case. Rob is worried that getting out of the case will cause O’Kelly to treat them like he does Quigley. Cassie still wants to bail on the case. A woman working in a nursing home hears the news report about the murder and the disappearances of Adam, Jamie, and Peter. Moments later, a disheveled man controls Cathal and tells him that it happened again. When he says Knocknaree, the man becomes upset and tells him to keep his voice down. Cathal gives the man some money and tells him to get away. The man responds that the evil of you, me, and Jonathan is something they cannot escape.

Rob and Cassie speak with O’Kelly about the case. Rob says that Jonathan Devlin was leading the campaign to move the motorway. During the meeting, Cassie begins planting the seeds that she is under too much pressure in hopes of getting out of the case. The superintendent makes comments about her boobs and she makes comments that scare him. He is worried that she might report him for sexual harassment. Rob joins Cassie and tells her that O’Kelly is only worried about the sexual harassment and not her mindset. They watch a video of Katy’s farewell performance that was sent over by Simone. Cassie still believes that they need to get off the case.

Moments later, Rob goes into the evidence room and looks at the evidence from the case of the three missing children. Police search the woods and find the bikes, which are still kept in the evidence room. Adam is shown in the woods screaming. The back of his shirt has three cuts. He is taken to the hospital and they find blood on his feet but the blood does not belong to him. Rob sniffs Adam’s shirt. He leaves and heads home a short time later. Meanwhile, Jon wakes up in the middle of the night and gets out of bed. He goes into Katy’s room and finds his other daughter missing. He checks the other room and finds her sleeping with her other sister.

While Rob sleeps, we see flashbacks of a wolf in the woods. Rob wakes up and spots the animal in his bedroom. He climbs into bed with him and he becomes frightened. The animal in the woods starts to bark, Rob rolls the floor, and wakes up. He gets into the bathtub and it appears that he is having a panic attack or something. After his bath, he finds out that he woke up Heather (Caoimhe O’Malley). She asks him not to smoke in his room because it aggravates her asthma. She does not have a puffer and this concerns Rob. He promises that he will not smoke in her room. They argue about Rob trying to steal her drink from the fridge. The disheveled man walks down the road with a paint can in his hand. He is nearly hit several times.

Rob goes to Cassie’s place and she tells him that he should have never slept with his landlady. Cassie comments that Rosalind wasn’t wearing a bra. She comments about the girl’s clothes too. Rob believes that she might be reconsidering her decision to drop the case. Detective Quigley (Eugene O’Hare) joins them the following day. The trio visits Dr. Cooper (Ned Dennehy) who performed the autopsy on the girl. Katy had eaten. She either took the snack from her house or her killer gave it to her. Cooper explains that she received two blows from an object of considerable weight. However, she was likely killed when a plastic bag was placed over her head.

Katy stayed along for a little while and struggled throughout. The position she was found in was the position she was kept in. Cooper reveals that the girl was not raped. Quigley rushes off so he can call O’Kelly. Meanwhile, the strange man goes through Cassie’s apartment and looks through her belongings. Cassie tells Rob to get flowers and that she needs a shower. Cassie enters her house and prepares to show until she notices something odd. She realizes that someone put the lid back on the alcohol bottle. The disheveled man stands near a billboard for Mallin Davis Construction. It says land acquired and it appears that the man has written He Rises twice on it. Rob goes to the nursing home and gives followers to his mother.

She calls him Adam and he says that she needs to be careful about calling him that. In a flashback, we see that Adam survived his ordeal. He is asked about Peter and Jamie. We see that Adam and his family were harassed by the others until he was put in a boarding school in Sussex. At this point, Adam decides that he wants to be called Robert.

 

Dublin Murders Review

So far, I am digging Dublin Murders. I like the atmosphere and mood of the show. Plus, you cannot lose with the cast. It is great from top to bottom. I will say that it is slightly slow and difficult to follow. I’ve watched the episode twice and I am not sure who some of the characters are yet. It has a lot of potential. As long as things do not get too crazy, Dublin Murders could be very good. I am getting The Missing vibes from it even though the storylines are much different.

The opener was pretty good. It scores a 7.5 out of 10.